Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6066 points

6306 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points

8479 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

5619 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6198 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

5454 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

163.82 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6901 points

9274 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

2302 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

4.30 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

5 GHz

51% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

54 W

122% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

247th of 1,089

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.